Daniel P. Diaz

“only reconciliation creates peace. It is not violence that heals, but only justice. This must be the criterion of all political action in present-day conflicts.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future

“the loss of the ability to see one’s guilt, the falling silent of conscience in so many areas, is a more dangerous illness of the soul than guilt that is recognized as guilt.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future

“One colleague suggested the thesis that, if it were generally true that an erring conscience could lead to salvation, then even the SS troops under Hitler would have been justified and would now be in heaven, since they had committed their evil deeds out of fanatical conviction and without the least disturbance to their consciences.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future

“A man of conscience is one who never purchases comfort, well-being, success, public prestige, or approval by prevalent opinion if the price is the renunciation of truth.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future